LAST MINUTE PROGRAMME CHANGES
Sir,-If there is one thing more irritating to the regular listener than anything else connected with broadcasting it is the frequent disappointments that occur when too much reliance is placed on programme details published in The Listener. I refer specifically to the details given in the current issue of the broadcasts scheduled for to-day (Sunday, February 1), of Junior Farrell, boy pianist; and Dan Foley, Irish tenor, at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. respectively. Now I know The Listener goes to press some days before the programmes are broadcast; and that last minute alterations naturally cannot be published. But why cannot the station make some reference to the alteration instead of ignoring the matter altogether? If a session cannot be broadcast at the advertised time, it is surely a small courtesy to acquaint those who have tuned in specially to hear it, of the fact that the session cannot be broadcast, and to tell listeners when it will be on the air. ‘Your paper announces that "any last minute alterations will be announced over the air,’ how about endeavouring to have this put into practice? Anyway, why didn’t Junior Farrell and Dan Foley
appear as scheduled?
P.J.
K.
, (Dunedin).
(The Commercial Broadcasting Service states that it had originally been intended to start both Junior Farrell at the Piano and Glimpses of Erin, featuring Dan Foley, from all ZB stations on the same date, Sunday, February 1. Too late for notification in The Listener, it was found necessary to alter this arrangement. Junior Farrell started from 2ZB on Sunday, February 1, and from 1ZB on February 8; he starts from 3ZB on February 15, 4ZB on February 22, and 2ZA, Palmerston North, on March 1. Glimpses of Erin started from 2ZB on February 1 and will start from 1ZB on February 15, 3ZB, March 1, 4ZB, March 15, and from 2ZA on March 29. The question of announcing last minute changes of programmes from the station itself has been drawn to the attention of 4ZB.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 138, 13 February 1942, Page 4
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338LAST MINUTE PROGRAMME CHANGES New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 138, 13 February 1942, Page 4
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